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The UK government is to create a new £1bn fund aimed at eradicating malaria and other infectious diseases.
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Emergency doctors and safety campaigners call for a national home-visiting scheme to help prevent injuries to toddlers in their own homes.
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A new digital crypto-currency has been launched that is generated by human movement.
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Three new cases of Ebola are confirmed in Liberia less than three months after the country was declared free of the virus, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.
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Overspending by NHS trusts in England has risen to £1.6bn this year, as concerns about the financial problems facing the health service grow.
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Stroke patients are more likely to regain their cognitive functions if they speak more than one language, new research finds.
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Infection with a species of parasitic worm increases the fertility of women, say scientists.
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More investment is needed to beat tuberculosis (TB), which has become one of the most deadly infectious diseases in the world, a coalition of health agencies warn.
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As part of the 100 women series BBC news speaks to some of the female nurses working in areas ravaged by conflict.
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The BBC takes a look at the figures behind nursing - one of the most sought after professions among migrants, and one which is dominated by women.
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At the age of 27, Azza Jadalla has already lived through six wars - three in the past seven years alone. She is a cancer nurse in Gaza's main hospital, Al-Shifa.
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Patients could get innovative cancer drugs more quickly under plans to overhaul England's controversial Cancer Drugs Fund.
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A 68-year-old woman "locked into the end stage" of multiple sclerosis and in a "minimally conscious state" should be allowed to die, a judge rules.
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Bacteria are now resistant to drugs of last resort meaning the world is on the cusp of a "post-antibiotic era", warn scientists.
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The Health Secretary is not ruling out going to independent arbitration at ACAS at some stage in the dispute with junior doctors in England, according to the Department of Health.
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Junior doctors in England have overwhelmingly voted in favour of going on strike in their dispute with ministers over a new contract.
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The young doctor who treated first casualties of the Paris attacks
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The results of a ballot of junior doctors in England are to be unveiled later, with a vote in favour of strikes widely expected.
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Jeremy Hughes, the chief executive of the Alzheimer's Society since 2010, says that he took a very direct route to find out what life in a care home is like - by staying in a care home himself to learn the reality.
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The campaign to stop women having to pay to use public toilets in India
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Crisis talks are taking place later between care home owners and council leaders amid mounting concern a large number of providers are preparing to pull out of the market.
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Hospitals are missing key opportunities to save the lives of hundreds of babies in the UK, an investigation into stillbirths shows.
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A free HIV home-testing kit has been launched across England as the latest figures show 18,100 people in the UK are unaware they have the infection.
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Three junior doctors discuss why they support going on strike against proposed changes to their contracts.
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A ballot of junior doctors closes this afternoon, which could lead to the first all-out strike in NHS history.
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A huge and potentially inappropriate surge in antibiotic prescriptions in winter has been identified through the first detailed maps of seasonal prescribing in England.
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Nearly one in four areas of England has unacceptably high rates of early deaths among people with mental health problems, a report suggests.
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Tracey Butler was being treated for schizophrenia, and says symptoms of physical illness were not taken seriously.
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Sierra Leona celebrates with twerking policemen and doctors
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The family of a woman with autism who had to be cared for in England because there was no suitable facility in Wales launches a judicial review against the Welsh government.
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A new study says there will be a shortage of nearly 200,000 care-workers in the UK within the next five years, as Alison Holt reports.
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A new treatment for pancreatic cancer could significantly increase survival rates, Ulster University has claimed.
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A US firefighter, who suffered severe burns while attempting to save a woman, has a new face after undergoing the world's most extensive facial transplant.
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Guinea's last known Ebola patient, a 21-day-old baby, has recovered, raising hopes that the country will be declared free of the disease.
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A life-extending breast cancer drug will not be routinely offered on the NHS in England and Wales because it is still too expensive, says the watchdog NICE.
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US surgeons say they have carried out the world's most extensive face transplant to date, including the entire scalp, ears and eyelids.
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A new study aimed at improving care for premature babies is launched by Sarah Brown, wife of former prime minister Gordon Brown.
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An HIV charity calls for more people to get tested early for the infection to halt the trend of late diagnosis and deaths in Scotland.
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AstraZeneca and pharmaceutical bodies warn of a "terrible human cost" unless new ways of funding antibiotics are found.
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A medical dressing that changes colour when it detects infection could cut the unnecessary use of antibiotics, say scientists at Bath University.
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Manufacturers need to do more to prevent the light from smartphones and tablets disrupting people's sleep, says a leading doctor.
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Scientists find out more about why malaria parasites thrive within mosquitoes and humans - and suggest it is down to the role of cyclins.
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Ministers are considering whether homeopathy should be put on an NHS blacklist of banned treatments, the BBC learns.
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A new study finds that obesity rates among US adults are on the rise again after years of slow decline.
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Plans to get contraceptives to 120 million more women in the world's poorest countries are behind track, a report by campaigners and donors is warning.
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